US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on Feb. 10 for "Disinfecting cap with pressure seal capability" (New Jersey, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,550, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Disinfecting cap with pressure seal capability" was invented by Chang Jiang (Butler, N.J.), Kevin M. Ryan (Whitehouse Station, N.J.), Michael Kwong Chan (New York) and Daniel Benjamin DiMirco (Scarsdale, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cap is described for connection to a needleless connector having an open lumen, the cap includes a housing having a top wall and sidewall forming a first cavity, an insert, an absorbent reservoir material and a sealing foam. The insert includes an inner thread on an inner surface, the inner thread being suff...